WordPress Platform and slide show carousel

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    circreferencedesk · Member ·

    We are looking for a platform that will play a slide show (mostly images with description/date info) of our events AND be able to set specific slides to automatically drop off (or be added to the show) by date set. Is that a possibility with any form of WordPress? Additionally, we’d like to be able to create more sites under one umbrella – we are a public library and different departments have different needs for the WordPress platform.

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  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    While I don’t personally know of one, it’s very possible there exists a WordPress plugin with what’s essentially an events calendar slideshow, based on what you describe. But the best place to ask about possible options for that is over on the WordPress.org forums – the forums you’re on now is for free users on WordPress.com who cannot use plugins, while the people on WordPress.org are the ones who make both the open source WordPress software, and plugins for that software, so they have much more collective knowledge about this topic than we have over here :)

    https://wordpress.org/support/forums/

    If a plugin like that doesn’t exist, you could always also hire someone to create your own custom plugin that works like that. In other words, what you want is definitely possible. The only question is how hard it will be to implement.

    Additionally, we’d like to be able to create more sites under one umbrella

    There are a few ways you can do this:

    WordPress.com, where you are now, is designed to allow one account to manage multiple sites. You can also give multiple accounts access to the same site, so you could have an admin account that owns all the sites, and then each department can have their own account(s) that only have access to their specific site(s), with only the permissions they need.

    Just note that if you want to use plugins on WordPress.com, you’ll need our Pro plan. And our plans are per-site, so you’d need to buy the plan for each site where you want to use your slider plugin, or any other plugin.

    https://wordpress.com/pricing/

    Another option is a multisite network. That’s essentially what WordPress.com also is, but with a multisite you’ll be using the open source version of WordPress at another host. A multisite is managed by a super-admin user who has complete control over all sites in the network, and has the ability to make some changes to all sites in the network at once. For example, a superadmin can install a plugin, and it gets installed on all sites on the network, rather than just one.

    The superadmin can then add users to each site in the network, with various user roles, as needed.

    Not all hosts support hosting multisite networks (we don’t on WordPress.com), so if you want to go this route, make sure to check that specifically with the hosts you consider.

    https://wordpress.org/support/article/create-a-network/

    Lastly you can also just get a hosting account that supports multiple sites (Pressable.com, for example, offer hosting plans for anything from 3 to 150+ sites on a single plan. All the sites are completely separate from one another, with their own WordPress installation and their own admin user account, but at the hosting level there’s one owner.

    If you go this self-hosted route you could optionally connect each site to your WordPress.com account via the Jetpack plugin, allowing you to still use one account to manage all the sites, without the sites actually being hosted on our servers.

    This is a lot of information, so please let me know if anything is unclear, or if you’d like more details about anything in particular.

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